365: IT TAKES TWO (COLLABORATIONS)

Well, in the words of the aforementioned Barry Manilow (see post 69), looks like we made it. 365 posts in 365 days, for what it’s worth. Cancer has not been cured, but we have finished something we started. For this post, we thought it might be nice to collaborate, and so we have. Thanks again to anyone who paid us the slightest attention. BUT WAIT !!! usefulmusic IS ALIVE !!! We’re just having a bit of a morph. Beginning next week we’ll be back, but different than ever before! Stay tuned!
So, goodbye it is then, for now. See you next week.
usefulmusic would also like to thank each other.
365: IT TAKES TWO (COLLABORATIONS)

1. The Only Ones featuring Pauline Murray – Fools
2. Madness featuring Ian Dury – Drip Fed Fred
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue – Where the Wild Roses Grow
4. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
5. Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man – Mysteries
6. Time Zone featuring John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa – World Destruction
7. Cornershop featuring Bubbley Kaur – Topknot
8. Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston – It Takes Two
30:04

9. Minuteflag — Fetch The Water
10. The Fucking Am — Doing Research For An Autobiography
11. Anthrax featuring Chuck D from Public Enemy — Bring The Noise
12. Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens — Streets Of Bakersfield
13. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder  — Ebony And Ivory
14. Queen & David Bowie — Under Pressure
15. A Tribe Called Quest featuring Leaders of the New School — Scenario
28:49

Total: 58:53

So Paul ended his half-hour with a poignant tribute to dual collaboration, and I ended mine with the greatest posse cut of all time. It takes a village to big-up oneself, you know. But wait, you might say, your total running time falls short of the 59-61 minute mark that you promised way back in who-knows-when! Well, as Marie Antoinette may or may not have said: “Always leave them wanting more.” Therefore (but conversely), we will be back next week, but with only a weekly post each (unless there is an internet clamor for us do more or to give up entirely). But wait, you might say, what will these subsequent posts be about?!? Well, interrobanger, you’ll just have to wait and see…

344: Another (Two Thousand) Twelve Inches

Here’s part two of my 12″ mixes, because the songs are long like a sentence for Tommy Chong.

I just failed at rapping (or writing raps, anyway {or “wrapping”}).

End transmission.

1. Herbie Hancock — Rockit (Long/Album Version)
2. Eric B. & Rakim — Follow The Leader
3. Jungle Brothers — Beyond This World
4. A Tribe Called Quest — Jazz (We’ve Got)
5. De La Soul ft. Q-Tip, The Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah & Monie Love — Buddy (Native Tongue Decision)
6. Kurtis Blow — The Breaks
7. George Clinton — Do Fries Go With That Shake (Thick Mix)
8. Samantha Fox — I Wanna Have Some Fun (Have Some Fun Mix)
9. Electronic — Lucky Bag (Miami Edit)
10. Ciccone Youth — Burnin’ Up

59:14

158: The Pronoun Game

I mean, after all, who could be anti-noun? The post title is taken from this movie.

1. And She Was — Talking Heads
2. Bury Us Alive — Starfucker
3. Give It To You — TransChamps
4. He Bit Me — The Meters
5. I — The Velvets
6. I Don’t Want Control Of You — Teenage Fanclub
7. If You Want Me To Stay — Sly and the Family Stone
8. Made You Look — Nas
9. Me And You — Brenton Wood
10. Me & You, Remembering — fIREHOSE
11. She Is Staggering — Polaris
12. She’s A Woman (And Now He Is A Man) — Hüsker Dü
13. Since I Left You — The Avalanches
14. Themselves — Minutemen
15. We Can Get Down — A Tribe Called Quest
16. We Can Work It Out — The Beatles
17. We’re Gonna Make It — Little Milton
18. You And I  — Dennis Wilson
19. You And Me — Archers Of Loaf
20. You Faded — Chavez

60:56

110 = 19+91

Oh, how badly did I want to start off today’s playlist with Super Furry Animal’s “It’s Not The End Of The World“? Very badly indeed, but I already had a mathematically appropriate list all set to go, so I went with what I had. Perhaps there will be another failed apocalyptic prediction before the year is out, but really, what jerk would have the balls to do so now?

Instead, I went with 1991, or as some know it, “The Year Punk Broke“. I know it as the year I turned 21, and as the year Shampoopoo happened. I have a lot more to write about that, but I’ll do it at a later date. For now I’ll leave you with a musical taste of what 1991 meant to me. I purposely left Nirvana off the list, mainly because they didn’t mean as much to me at the time as these other artists, but also because it’s a bit on the nose. Enjoy this 20th anniversary special.

1. Alec Eiffel — The Pixies
2. Arise — Sepultura
3. Can’t Believe — fIREHOSE
4. Check The Rhime — A Tribe Called Quest
5. Getting Away With It — Electronic
6. Girlfriend — Matthew Sweet
7. Green Mind — Dinosaur Jr.
8. Grey Cell Green — Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
9. Just When You Thought It Was Safe… — Leaders Of The New School
10. Mind Playing Tricks on Me — Geto Boys
11. Only Shallow — My Bloody Valentine
12. Pokin’ Around — Mudhoney
13. Seed Toss — Superchunk
14. Sunless Saturday — Fishbone
15. There’s No Other Way — Blur
16. What You Do to Me — Teenage Fanclub
17. Where You Gonna Land (Next Time You Fall Off Of Your Mountain)? — Nova Mob

60:24

76: Homophones

First, I know every joke you might make (not you, Paul, but “you,” the mythical puerile reader on the other side of the screen). Second, if you are snickering, pick up a dictionary and read it some time (check the card catalog for where the dictionaries are located). Third, enjoy these homophonically titled songs, along with the bonus Venn diagram that I included for Ann to show that I was partially wrong and she was partially right about Venn diagrams. Trifecta complete.

1. High Fidelity — Elvis Costello & The Attractions
2. High Fidelity — Jurassic 5
3. Push It Along — A Tribe Called Quest
4. Push It Along — Paul Weller
5. Round And Round — Los Lobos
6. Round & Round — New Order
7. I Love You — The Zombies
8. I Luv U — Dizzee Rascal
9. This Time — Los Lobos
10. This Time — Dwight Yoakam
11. Side2Side — Sonic Youth
12. Side To Side — Blackalicious
13. Love Train — The Woodentops
14. Love Train — The O’Jays
15. Get It On — The Woodentops
16. Get It On — T. Rex

60:38

14: The Letter A (Artists)

In doing the math, I figured that if we keep this up for a year then we will both have 26 weeks of mixes to make, which corresponds nicely with the alphabet. So, on every seventh list of mine (which will always fall on a Monday) I will go from A to Z in order, with the added stipulation that I will stick only to my vinyl. I may need to go shopping before Q or X, but that’s a ways off. So here’s A. A what? A list. A-list. Eh? A.

1.Beat Box (Diversion One)                     Art of Noise
2.Ja Fun Mi                                                King Sunny Ade
3.Sun City                             Artists United Against Apartheid
4.Can I Kick It?                                         A Tribe Called Quest
5.School Boy Crush                                  Average White Band
6.Tangerine                                                Gene Ammons
7.Anita                                                         Jho Archer
8.Everybody                                               Roy Ayers
9.Prince Charming                                    Adam and the Ants
10.Mistakes & Regrets         …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
11.Scenic Pastures                                     Archers of Loaf
12.Flight of the Moorglade                      Jon Anderson
13.Melissa                                                   The Allman Brothers Band

59:53